Consolidation among heavyweights in the telecommunications industry, including some of the wireless sector's largest carriers, has grabbed the headlines during the last several months. Meanwhile, the tower industry has been experiencing a rapid consolidation of its own.Since the beginning of this month, American Tower...
AT&T Corp.'s announced acquisition of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. has raised some questions as to what AT&T plans to do with Vanguard's paging operations.Many analysts expect AT&T to sell off the business unit, just as it did its own paging business-AT&T Wireless Inc.'s Advanced...
Officials at MobileMedia Corp. said they will not postpone the Oct. 14 bankruptcy court hearing to review its disclosure statement, setting in motion the legal process necessary to complete its acquisition by Arch Communications Group Inc. and putting to rest rumors of another company...
AT&T Corp. plans merge AT&T Wireless Services Inc. into the corporation by 1999, and appoint Dan Hesse, current AT&T Wireless president and CEO, head of the company's customer-care units."AT&T has actually been in an evolution of bringing wireless into the total AT&T," said Eileen...
Paging carriers are showing signs that they have taken to heart analysts' warnings that information services must be customizable and have real value in order to convince customers to pay for them.While paging carriers believe information services have the potential to generate increased average...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The public stock markets may be a bit shaky for now, but "there never has been more private capital available," David Golden, co-director of investment banking at Hambrecht & Quist, San Francisco, told PCS '98 attendees at the conference late last month.Venture capital...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced its shareholders have approved the company's acquisition of AT&T Wireless Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division and set the stage for a series C convertible preferred stock offering needed to complete the deal.The series C preferred stock will be convertible to Metrocall...
INTERDIGITALGerard Pepenella was hired by InterDigital Communications Corp. as vice president and general manager of broadband Code Division Multiple Access technology. He will collaborate with Gary Lomp, chief technology officer, on growth and enhancement of the company's technology and products. Pepenella joined InterDigital with...
SAN DIEGO-OmniVoice Technologies Inc. announced plans to commence beta trials of its digital voice paging technology with Mexican paging provider Digitel.OmniVoice's technology allows paging subscribers to send text and voice pages without the assistance of an operator over a standard FLEX network. Digitel joins...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it purchased a narrowband personal communications services license from AT&T Two-Way Messaging Communications Inc. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.TSR's acquisition of the AT&T license combined with its earlier acquisition of American Paging gives the company...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division introduced two new services last week-a guaranteed delivery service and a nationwide paging alternative.The first, called AlphaTrack, is a guaranteed-messaging service reselling SkyTel Communications Inc.'s ReFLEX 50 network airtime. This is the second major resale agreement for...
The recent commercial launch of PageMart Wireless Inc.'s facilities-based ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network has heralded in the new age of paging, in which all major paging players will operate some type of two-way network.SkyTel Communications Inc. no longer will be the...
In the past year, paging companies have engineered a striking makeover designed to change their "look" to better meet the business style of the new millennium.Just as the parachute pants and spiked haircuts of the 1980s are out and the khaki pants and George...
Arch Communications Group Inc. and MobileMedia Communications Inc. reportedly are extremely close to an agreement to merge, said sources close to the talks. Nothing definite had been decided by RCR press time Friday, however.No timetable has been disclosed as to when such an announcement...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. signed a multiyear strategic partnership with Metrocall Inc. for paging service development and distribution and closed its purchase of another paging carrier.Vanguard plans to buy and install paging transmitters on Metrocall networks in areas of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and...
Several paging carriers released their second-quarter earnings reports last week, each revealing a continued effort toward achieving profitability and reducing debt.Metrocall Inc. capped off a busy second quarter with a reported net loss of $28.7 million, or 76 cents per share, compared with $12.3...
Metrocall Inc. announced a two-year interactive marketing agreement with America Online, by far the country's largest Internet online service with more than 12 million members.Under the terms of the agreement, AOL will establish links to Metrocall's Web site throughout the AOL service area and...
The paging industry experienced some greater-than-usual excitement in the second quarter that securities analysts at Toronto Dominion Securities Inc. believe will set the tone for the next stage of the market's transformation.Second-quarter highlights include: Arch Communications Group's operational restructuring and financial recapitalization, Metrocall Inc.'s acquisition...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Fujitsu Software Corp. extended its ByeDesk Link wireless server software to Metrocall Inc., PageMart Wireless Inc. and Paging Network Inc., as well as to PageNet reseller MCI Communications Corp.ByeDesk Link, previously available to Global System for Mobile communications based phones, is a...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced a two-year strategic marketing agreement with Washington Gas, under which the utility will offer Metrocall pagers and services to its customers in the Washington, D.C., area via bill inserts.Those accepting the offer will get free service for two months, said...
The larger players in the paging industry have bellied up to the consolidation table and, with fork and knife in hand, are poised to dig in.Still digesting its acquisition of ProNet Inc., Metrocall Inc. said its next serving will be the Advanced Messaging Division...
In the March 25 issue of RCR, an article on Metrocall Inc.'s Direct View product incorrectly stated the required devices to use the service. Direct View is a full turnkey service Metrocall developed that includes a proprietary receiver.The chart on page 8 of the...
NEW YORK-In a "three-peat" of its 1995 and 1996 performance, AT&T Corp. again took first place in revenues and net income among carriers last year, despite a marked decline in profits year-to-year.AT&T closed its last fiscal year with $51.32 billion in revenues, up 1.53...
Moves made by the top 10 paging carriers in the last six months dramatically illustrate how paging carriers are changing to remain in the game.The sun has set on the age of the cheap-beep model and is rising on a new era of value-added...
